Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
- martial arts
- samurai
- based on novel or book
- swordplay
- murder
- jidaigeki
- edo period
- shinsengumi
- 19th century
- bakumatsu
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Toshirō Mifune — Toranosuke Shimada
- Tadao Nakamaru — Isamu Kondo
- Kei Satō — Kamo Serizawa
- Kō Nishimura — Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
- Ichirō Nakatani — Bunnojo Utsuki
- Kunie Tanaka — Senkichi
- Takamaru Sasaki — Ishinsai Nakamura
- Ryōsuke Kagawa — Dansho Tsukue
- Kamatari Fujiwara — Omatsu's grandfather
- Hideyo Amamoto — Shuzen Kamio
- Akio Miyabe — Toshizo Ogata
- Directed
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Written
- Shinobu Hashimoto
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 266 ratings
- Studio
- Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd., TOHO
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